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Образец семестровой контрольной работы

Achievement test

I semester

Task 1 Give the equivalents:

variety of English terrible prepositions forms of income supply to depend on postgraduate economy restricted English senior distribution of wealth to include scholarship payment to award a diploma coach economic events secondary education to graduate from University exceptions to any rule full-time students

родной язык застой различный экономный угадывать значение слова спрос бух. учёт делать выводы иностранный язык прогноз принимать решения скудные ресурсы декан высшее образование зарплата абитуриент экономика (наука) экономический факультет специальность произношение

Task 2 Fill in the blanks with the verbs given in brackets:

41. What computer program ______ you usually use when you make graphs?

Is, have, are ,do

42. The quality of this records _______ very good.

does, is, are, be

43. I hope a cure for AIDS _______ soon.

is found, was found, founds, will be found

44. The information ________ to the police 2 days ago

Gives, gave, was given, will be given

45. Mozart ________ more than 600 pieces of music.

writes, is written, wrote, will write

Task 3 Put verbs in the brackets into Active or Passive voice:

46. Railways (to build) in England one hundred years ago.

47. When Joe and Carol (to meet) first?

48. Who (to suggest) the hypothesis yesterday?

49. Next year this project (to finish) at last.

50. A number of teachers (to elect) by the Faculty Board in a month.

Task 4 Make up sentences using the correct word order:

51. The, changed, the, policy, government, is, national, by.

52. He, English, more, or, understand, less, can.

53. Basic, for, are, elasticity of demand, there, two, reasons.

54. And, on, depend, prices, supply, demand, do?

55. What, in, are, your, university, there, faculties?

Task 5 Put the Comparative or Superlative degree of the adjectives in the sentences:

56. Use the Internet if you need (far) information.

57. You use computer (often) than I do.

58. Did you listen to (last) news?

59. Is the dollar (cheap) now than the euro?

60. Nobody works as (hard) as our boss.

Образцы устных разговорных тем для подготовки к экзамену The English We Learn

English is the most widespread language on Earth. English is considered an international language because people use it as a mother tongue or as a second language for cultural and professional purposes. English is the language of business, technology, sport and aviation.

English has the vocabulary with approximately 800 000 words. English seems easy in the beginning. It has very few endings, many nouns and verbs have the same form (e. g. smile, increase). But English is not an easy language to learn. There is a large number of exceptions to any rule, it is very idiomatic and prepositions are terrible. The tense system is also very complicated. English presents a difficulty for a Russian learner because of disagreement between pronunciation and spelling.

English varies according to forms of communication (spoken – written), speech situations (formal – informal), functional styles (language of science – literary language), geographical areas (British English – American English).

The students of Economics study the language of science. The language of science belongs to formal written communication; it is usually objective, precise and unemotional. The common features of the language of science are passive constructions, sentences beginning with it (e. g. It is important to remember).

Formal language is used publicly for some serious purpose, for example, in official reports and business letters. Much of the vocabulary of formal English is of French, Latin and Greek origin. Informal language is used in private conversation, popular newspapers, personal letters.